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23. BuzzFeed Editors Unsure How To Spin Petraeus Story Into Reason The ’90s Were Great

With Monday’s peak web traffic hours nearly over, editors at the viral content site BuzzFeed told reporters they were still searching for a way to incorporate the news of CIA director David Petraeus’s career-ending affair into a short article about why the 1990s were great.

24. David Carr on BuzzFeed in the New York Times

“With its mix of oddities, listicles and Web memes, BuzzFeed was at first something like The Huffington Post without the pretension of producing news and commentary. But in December, Mr. Peretti hired Ben Smith, the highly regarded blogger and columnist for Politico, to be his editor in chief. Right after he started in January, Mr. Smith broke the news of Mr. McCain’s endorsement of Mr. Romney for the New Hampshire primary. The message was clear: BuzzFeed was a player in news.”

“’The 21 Absolute Worst Things in the World,’ is a collection of photos of objects whose forlorn dishevelment makes us cringe and then crack up: a depleted-yet-runny tube of toothpaste, a niggling hangnail, a power-strip mostly blocked up by a too-big charger, a cord caught in the wheel of an office chair.”